"Republicans are the party of the rich, right? It's a label that has
stuck for decades, and you're hearing it again as Democrats complain
about GOP opposition to raising the minimum wage and extending
unemployment benefits.

The richest:
New York's 12th Congressional District, which includes Manhattan's Upper
East Side, as well as parts of Queens and Brooklyn. Democrat Carolyn
Maloney is in her 11th term representing the district.

Per
capita income in Maloney's district is $75,479. That's more than
$75,000 a year for every man, woman and child. The next highest income
district, which runs along the southern California coast, comes in at
$61,273. Democrat Henry Waxman is in his 20th term representing the Los
Angeles-area district.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district comes in at No. 8.

Across
the country, Democratic House districts have an average per capita
income of $27,893. That's about $1,000 higher than the average income in
Republican districts. The difference is relatively small because
Democrats also represent a lot of poor districts, putting the average in
the middle.

Democrats say the "party of the rich" label is more about policies than constituents.

During
the 2012 presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney
declared, "We're not the party of the rich. We're the party of the
people who want to get rich."

The famously wealthy Romney also uttered a more famous quote about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax.

"My
job is not to worry about those people," Romney said in a secretly
taped speech at a private fundraiser. "I'll never convince them that
they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

In
the election, Romney carried only one income group: people making
$100,000 or more, according to exit polls. But when it comes to
Congress, the rich districts like their Democrats.

"Perhaps no other person has spent more time within the conservative
movement and guided its development than Richard Viguerie. As a pioneer
of direct mail fundraising, one of the original founders of Young
Americans for Freedom and as prolific political fundraiser, Viguerie has
been involved in the conservative movement for over 50 years.

But his experience and involvement within politics has led him to a stunning conclusion.

“Conservatives haven’t had a lot of victories in the last 100 years,” Viguerie told The Daily Caller Friday.

He defines conservatives by their desire “to go back to a governmentthat lives within the constitution — that does limit the power and scope of government.”

In his book, Viguerie argues thatliberal Democrats are not the real
adversariesof small-government inclined conservatives, but it’s
establishment Republicans — like John Boehner — who are capable of
pushing through government expansion, hurting the party at the polls.

But in his opinion — outside of a few political victories, cutting
taxes and other fiscal reforms — his side of the Republican party has
lost on the cultural war front and have not been able to affect change
thanks to the predominance of liberalism in cultural institutions.

“We’ve lost more than we’ve gained… It’s for many reasons and a major reason is that the leadership of almost every institution in America is arrayed against the conservatives’ views and values.”Viguerie believed that big business,
educational institutions and Hollywood all contribute to an environment
where a predominantly liberal viewpoint holds power in the country.

The political activist calls for the creation of “third force” groups
that would dedicate themselves to niche issues and broaden the range of
views within the conservative movement and new leaders to take charge of the GOP.

“Conservatives are like the biblical Jews who had to wander through
the desert for 40 years until that generation of flawed leaders had
passed from the scene. We’re not going to get to the political promise
land unless we get new leaders,” Viguerie said. ”We’ve done well with
less taxes, balancing the budget,
smaller government, etc. But it’s not going to lead to a permanent
governing coalition in America, so we need to add many more issues to
our platform.”

He does believe that the current GOP is more conservative now than it
was during Reagan’s time — citing the fact that no mainstream candidate
of the party can run on a pro-choice agenda amongst other issues that
are more in line with his definition of a conservative agenda.

But he now feels that many leaders of the party, such as Ted Cruz and
Rand Paul, are no longer fettered to the party and he sees this as a
positive development for his side of the GOP.

Viguerie writes
in his book that this development bodes well for his side of the party
and that there are several new issues that conservatives can get out
front on and attract new voters, such as criminal sentencing reform.

“We need to identify lots of new issuesand the reform of the criminal justice system is going to be a major issue in 2016. The left cannot lead on this issue — it is a major, major problem,” Viguerie said." image of Ted Cruz via Daily Caller. via Free Rep.

The 67-year-old absolute monarch declared last year that he wanted to
introduce a full sharia systemin his oil-rich nationand warned
critics who took to social media sites to complain that they could be
prosecuted using the new laws.

The decision to introduce sharia
and reintroduce the death penalty has been condemned by NGOs and legal
rights campaigners, who say the new rules will breach international
laws. It has also triggered alarm among some of Brunei’s non-Muslim
communities, who will also be subject to some of the rulings.

The
development could put pressure on Britain to rethink its close
relationship with Brunei, a former colony. A British regiment based in
the country – the last surviving UK regiment stationed in East Asia – is
paid for entirely by the Sultan.

In a letter to Sultan Hassanal
Bolkiah, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said it deplored
the new rules, adding that, if implemented, they would lead to serious
human rights violations. “Brunei has not implemented the death penalty
for years, so it came as quite a surprise that the new law has
reintroduced it,” said the ICJ’s Emerlynne Gil.

The Sultan of Brunei says he wants to set up a ‘firewall’ against globalisation.
Brunei is two-thirds Muslim and has long implemented some sharia, mainly
for civil matters such as marriage. But last year the Sultan, who is
said to be worth £24bn and lives in a 1,788-room palace, announced a
plan to introduce full Islamic law.

“It is
because of our need that Allah the Almighty, in all his generosity, has
created laws for us, so that we can utilise them to obtain justice,” the
Sultan said at the time.

It is unclear precisely what is
motivating the Sultan, who also serves as the country’s prime minister
and assumed the throne in 1967. But in a speech in February to mark the
country’s National Day holiday, he claimed the system of an absolute
Islamic monarch acted as a “strong and effective firewall” against the
challenges of globalisation. He referred specifically to the internet.

He
claimed that there were those, both in and outside Brunei, which last
year chaired the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean), who
had been challenging his plans and who wanted to see “internal turmoil”.
He added: “These parties, it seems, have attempted to mock the king,
the Islamic scholars and sharia. They are using the new media, such as
blogs, WhatsApp and so on, which are not just accessed by locals but
also by those overseas.”

The speech by the Sultan – who for many years was involved in a
high-profile legal battle with his brother, a playboy accused of
misappropriating £9bn of government assets and who reportedly owned a
yacht called Tits – has had the impact of silencing many who might
publicly speak out against the move.

Yet there are concerns,
especially among the minority communities. There are around 30,000
Filipino citizens in Brunei, many of them Catholic, and the Philippine
ambassador to Brunei, Nestor Ochoa, recently held a meeting at which he
warned his countrymen about the implications of the new laws.

Father
Robert Leong, a Catholic priest in Brunei, said there were concerns
that baptisms of newborn babies could breach the new rules, which
prohibit the “propagation of religion other than Islam to a Muslim or a
person having no religion”.He said that the law was being introduced in
three phases, with the harshest punishments, including the death
penalty, being phased in over two years from Tuesday. “There will be no
baptisms.There is not a lot we can do about it. We will have to wait
and see what happens,” he said.

Britain granted independence to
Brunei in 1984, but has maintained a close relationship with the
country. A 1,000-strong regiment of the British Army, the Royal Gurkha
Rifles, has been located there since the late 1950s and in 1962 stepped
in to quell a rebellion against the Sultan’s father. The regiment is
paid for by the Sultan. The British Army also runs a jungle warfare
training school in the small nation. A government spokesperson said:
“Ministry of Defence discussions are ongoing with the Bruneian
authorities to clarify any impact on UK forces.”

Royal Dutch
Shell, an Anglo-Dutch multinational,also runs a major operation there
as a joint venture with the Brunei government.

A briefing document
published last year about defence and security opportunities in Brunei
by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills saidBrunei
invested “a significant proportion of the country’s wealth through the
City of London”. It said the British Armed Forces garrison was a
linchpin of UK-Brunei relations.

“The Government’s goal is to
retain a dominant position in these key areas, and to maximise our share
of influence as Brunei diversifies its economy and puts increasing
emphasis on regional partners like Asean and China,” it said. “As it
does so, Brunei will also provide a UK-friendly window into the key
growth area of South-east Asia.”

The Sultan has been married three
times. He remains married to his first wife, but he divorced his
second, a one-time airline stewardess, in 2003 after 21 years. He
divorced his third wife, a former TV reporter, in 2010 after five years.
Both ex-wives were stripped of their royal titles.

The Brunei government did not respond to queries and
the Brunei High Commission in London failed to answer questions from The
IoS. However, earlier this year, Brunei’s most senior Muslim cleric
claimed that those criticising the new rules did not understand them,
according to a report in The Brunei Times.

Dr Ustaz Hj Awg Abdul
Aziz Juned said in a lecture in London: “Not even a day after the law
was announced, human rights groups on social media commented that the
steps taken by the Brunei government to implement the law was out of
date and not modern.”

Sharia explained

What is sharia?

Sharia
is the Islamic legal system that derives from the Koran, the example of
the life of the Prophet Mohamed and “fatwas”, which are the rulings of
Islamic scholars. Different schools of thought exist, resulting in
different interpretations.

What does it cover?

While
Western law confines itself predominantly to crime and civil matters,
sharia is a guide to help Muslims understand how they should lead every
aspect of their lives. This ranges from deciding whether to enter a bar
with someone wanting to drink alcohol to the punishments for theft or
for criticising the Koran. Its treatment of women is particularly
controversial. Judgements have banned the holding of property once
married, enabled beatings for insubordination, and required a husband’s
consent to divorce.

"The White House announcedthe federal government will spend $6
billionover four years for a “sustainable energy future” plan with
Asian countries that involves loaning tax dollars to other countries to
increase their purchasing power for U.S. technology, services and
equipment.

“Recognizing that energy and the environment are among the most
pressing issues confronting our region, President Obama, in partnership
with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Bruneiand President of the
Republic ofIndonesiaSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono, today proposed the
U.S.-Asia Pacific Comprehensive Partnershipfor a Sustainable Energy
Future,” the White House announced Tuesday as Obama visits Asian Pacific
countries."...----------------------------------------------------------------------Dec. 11, 2011, "Indonesia’s Climate of Graft Snarls Investment," Jakarta Globe,Shirley Wibisono

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has won two elections on promises to
tackle graft in one of the most corrupt countries in Asia, but critics
say he has failed to make any genuine difference to the culture of graft
and impunity.

A Gallup poll released in October found that 91
percent of Indonesians believe corruption in government is widespread,
compared to 84 percent in 2006. ...

“Here in Indonesia, it is a common practice for businessmen to bribe officials to get a project,” Adiningsih said....

“It’s common for corruption to happen at all stages in Indonesian
infrastructure projects, whether it’s during the tender process or
extortion along the way.”...

“Officially, the governors were in Las Vegas to address
the spring leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, which
has long promoted a staunchly pro-Israel and interventionist foreign
policy. But their political objective was to build relationships with
potential benefactors who could bankroll future campaigns.

The biggest draw was Adelson, who hosted the conference at the
Venetian, his sprawling and flashy casino hotel. Adelson and his wife,
Miriam, spent more than $93 million in the 2012 elections and have
signaled they will spend heavily in the next presidential campaign.”"

"The man who drove a semi-truckonto Norfolk Naval Station before
killing a sailor received his transportation worker credential within
the past few months, a source close to the investigation said Friday.

The detail comes a day afterthe Navy identified Jeffrey Tyrone Savage
as the man at the center of its investigation into the shooting aboard
the guided missile destroyer Mahan on Monday.

Savage, 35, has a long criminal record, including convictions for
selling drugs and manslaughter, but family members said they believed
the man who grew up in Portsmouth had finally begun to turn his life
around after years in and out of prison.

They pointed to Savage's marriage last year to a long-time girlfriend
and his efforts over the past several months to start a new career as a
commercial truck driver.

"We had seen a change in Jeffrey," said Rena Duffie, a cousin who lives
on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

"When we looked at him, we didn't see the
old Jeffrey anymore. We saw a man who loved his wife and had committed
himself to being a good father and providing for his family. We thought
the old Jeffrey was gone."

The family is asking many of the same questions investigators are
asking. What was Savage doing on the naval base late Monday? What
prompted him to park his truck near pier 1 and climb aboard a warship?
Why did he wrest control of a guard's gun and kill a man?

The Navy also wants to know how Savage managed to breach at least two
security checkpoints.

Savage used his Transportation Worker
Identification Credential to drive through Gate 5 and showed the
security credential again to get onto Pier 1. But the card alone should
not have been enough to get past either entry control point.

Savage's truck was owned by Majette Trucking in Portsmouth. He
regularly worked for Rail Port Services in Chesapeake. Neither company
would talk to reporters Friday.

Sources said Savage had become a regular in the security line at
Norfolk International Terminals, but he rarely if ever delivered or
picked up freight from the naval station.

To do that work, he relied on the same Transportation Worker
Identification Credential he used to get into Norfolk Naval Station. His
TWIC card was issued in 2014by the Transportation Safety
Administration, which administers the program. It is good for five
years.

Savage would have had to pass a background check to receive the card,
which allows unescorted access to secure ports and military
installations. Manslaughter is not listed among the list of offenses
that might disqualify someone from receiving the credential.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner expressed “grave concerns” over the incident. In a
letter dated Friday to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Homeland Security
Secretary Jeh Johnson, Warner asked for briefings on the security breach
and the status of the TWIC program.

At Norfolk Naval Station, a delivery driver using a TWIC card must
first go to a vehicle inspection area just outside the base, where
trucks are examined and visitors must show proof of official business,
such as a bill of lading or manifest. A driver is then issued a
temporary visitor pass and proceeds to the gate.

Drivers with TWIC cards who are not making deliveries should go to a
separate pass office where they must give a reason for their visit. The
pass office is supposed to verify that and run the driver's name through
the National Crime Information Center, a computerized index of criminal
justice information such as outstanding warrants."

"In September 2013, China's net importsof petroleum and other liquids
exceeded those of the United States on a monthly basis, making it the
largest net importer of crude oil and other liquids in the world. The
rise in China's net imports
of petroleum and other liquids is driven by steady economic growth,
with rapidly rising Chinese petroleum demand outpacing production
growth.

U.S. total annual petroleumand other liquids production is expected
to rise 31% between 2011 and 2014 to 13.3 million barrels per day,
primarily from tight oil [shale] plays. In the meantime,Chinese production
will increaseat a much lower rate (5% over this period) and is forecast
to be only a third of U.S. production in 2014.

On the demand side, China's liquid fuels use is expected to reach
more than 11 million barrels per day in 2014, while U.S. demand hovers
close to 18.9 million barrels per day, well below the peak U.S.
consumption level of 20.8 million barrels per day in 2005. U.S.
refined petroleum product exports increased by more than 173% between
2005 and 2013, lowering total net U.S. imports of petroleum and other
liquids.

China has been diversifying the sourcesof its crude oil imports in
recent years as a result of robust oil demand growth and recent
geopolitical uncertainties. Saudi Arabia continues to be the largest
supplier of crude oil to China and in 2013 provided 19% of China's 5.6
million barrels per day. Because production levels from Iran, Libya,
and Sudan and South Sudan dropped since 2011, China replaced the lost shares of crude oil and other liquids imports from these countries with
imports from

"In one week, 370
immigrant children, most of them from Central America, were found
abandoned in Mexico, after traffickers promised to take them to the
United States but left them to their own devices after being paid
thousands of dollars, authorities said.

Almost half of them, 163
children under the age of 18, were found traveling alone, Mexico's
National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement.

Each
month, thousands of immigrants, mostly from Honduras, Guatemala and El
Salvador, attempt to emigrate to the United States, crossing several
borders in the process, despite the threat from drug gangs that kidnap,
murder and rape women.

The children
told federal migration agents that their 'guides' abandoned them after
accepting $3,000 to $5,000 in payments, INM said.

"On Tuesday, Laura Levites, the liberal comedian who recently said she wanted to "rip out" Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodger's uterus, proved yet again that liberalism is an ideology of hate and ragewhen she went on another profanity-laced Twitter rant saying she would
"personally like to castrate" every male conservative Christian. ."I would personally like to castrate every Male Conservative Christian so that they have NO reproductive rights," she said, using the hashtag "#HobbyLobby.". "I'm just going to stay broke so that Republican Conservative Christians have to pay for

EVERYTHING!" she added in another tweet..
She also expressed her hatred of Christians in a tweet calling conservative Christians "scumbags," claiming they are "really trying" her patience.

"Why can't Agent Orange be legal?" she asked.

In another tweet, Levites said she would pay for Hobby Lobby's David Green to be castrated.

She went so far as to advocate violence on Green, proclaiming she
would purchase a saw from Home Depot to cut off Green's male organ so
she can "shove it up his a**."

"Scratch a reactionary leftist, find the fascist thug writhing underneath," one person said in response to Levites' violent rhetoric.

Another person schooled Levites, reminding her that Hobby Lobby "covers 16 types of birth control." Oddly enough, Levites' Twitter feed features a picture of the
comedian wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "I love haters,"
using a heart symbol.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a craft chain based in Oklahoma, and
Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., a Pennsylvania-based cabinet-making
company, were at the center of those arguments.

Both companies say the mandate violates their owners' religious beliefs.

The Blaze said many reports seem to indicate the justices appeared "to sway in support of the plaintiffs."

“Majority of #SCOTUS justices appear likely to rule firms have right to religious claims, but ruling on merits unclear,” Reuters said, while the Associated Press said the court “seems divided” on the issue.

He was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester Magistrates' Court later.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said Mr Chua faced one count
of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, 22 counts of attempting to
cause grievous bodily harm with intent and eight offences of attempting
to administer poison, under the Offences Against the Person Act.Investigators have been examining the contamination of various
medical products, between June 1 and July 15, 2011 at the hospital.

They were first called to Stepping Hill following reports that saline ampoules and bags had been contaminated with insulin.

"U.S. tight oil production averaged 3.22 million barrels per day
(MMbbl/d) in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to U.S. Energy
Information Administration estimates. This level was enough to push
overall crude oil production in the United States to an average of 7.84
MMbbl/d, more than 10% of total world production,up from 9% in the
fourth quarter of 2012. The United States and Canada are the only major
producers of tight oil in the world. In recent years, North American
producers have developed technologically advanced drilling and
completion processes to produce oil from tight formations.

Tight oil refers to oil found within reservoirs with very low
permeability, including but not limited to shale. Permeability is the
ability for fluid, such as oil and gas, to move through a rock
formation. In February 2014, 63% of U.S. tight oil production came from
two basins: the Eagle Ford in South Texas (1.21 MMbbl/d, or 36% of total U.S. tight oil production), and the Bakken Shale
in North Dakota and Montana (0.94 MMbbl/d, or 28% of total U.S. tight
oil production). Tight oil production in the United States represents
91% of all North American tight oil production, with the remaining 9%
coming from Canada.

Canada and Russia were the only countries outside the United States
that have produced commercial quantities of crude oil from tight
formations:

In Canada, total tight oil production averaged 0.34 MMbbl/d in
2013, close to 10% of the 3.52 MMbbl/d of total Canadian crude oil
production. This production was concentrated entirely in the country's
western provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

Russia is producing some oil through the use of hydraulic fracturing applied to tight formations, mainly in the West Siberia Basin. The 0.12 MMbbl/d of tight oil produced in Russia in 2013 accounted for 1% of its total oil production.

With industry conditions resembling those of North America, Australia
and the United Kingdom have the potential to be among the next
countries with commercially viable tight oil production. Outside these
two countries, there are many examples of energy companies drilling
exploratory wells and committing to large investment plans to develop
tight oil formations. Many of these formations are located within basins
that already produce conventional crude oil in Mexico, Russia, China,
and Argentina. The Argentine national oil company YPF claimed in their
third-quarter 2013 report the production of more than 10,000 barrels of
oil equivalent per day from Vaca Muerta in the Neuquin Basin, of which
7,887 barrels per day was crude oil." chart from EIA.gov

"In June, the Agriculture Department, the Energy Department and the
E.P.A.will jointly release a “biogas roadmap” aimed at accelerating
adoption of methane digesters, machines that reduce methane emissions
from cattle, in order to cut dairy sector greenhouse gas emissions by 25
percent by 2020."end of article

Oddly, however, the hacks rounded up over
the last few days, well, let’s put it this way. They voted for Obama
100 percent. They think Obamacare’s great. How could they possibly be
guilty as charged?Last Friday, it was the speaker of the Rhode
Island House of Representatives, Gordon Fox, who is (technically) black
and who is definitely gay. Astonishingly, given the open
racial-preference policies of the Obama regime, Fox’s Providence home
and his State House offices were raided Friday by the FBI. He resigned
Saturday. We still don’t know what the G-men have on him.Next,
the mayor of Charlotte, Patrick Cannon, another Democrat. He allegedly
accepted $48,000 in bribes, some of which he took at the same Capitol
Grill where payoffs were earlier accepted by jailbird ex-Speaker Jim
Black. Black is not to be confused with ex-Speaker Jimmy Green, who
likewise went to prison, for torching his tobacco burns.Then
there’s state Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco. He used to go on Piers
Morgan’s now-canceled CNN moonbat-fest and denounce the Second
Amendment.He sent out tweets on the first anniversary of the Newtown
massacre saying, “I’m still shocked & prepared to take steps to stop
gun violence.”Well, up to a point …He, too, was arrested
on Wednesday, for allegedly arranging deals to procure M16s and rocket
launchers to be smuggled into California after being purchased from
Muslim terrorists in the Philippines. Sen. Yee was working with a
Chinese gangster named “Shrimp Boy.”

Apparently, Yee was much less
concerned about the spread of weapons of mass destruction when he was
talking to his fellow hoods than when he was pontificating on CNN:
“People want to get whatever they want to get. Do I care? No, I don’t
care. People need certain things.”Like, rocket launchers.Two-gun
Yee is the third Democrat state senator to be arrested in California
this week. Earlier it was state Sen. Rod Wright (perjury) and then Ron
Calderon (bribery).What a crime wave, in less than one week.So
guess what most of the networks ledwith on their newscasts last night?
The 5-month-old story of Gov. Chris Christie’s Bridgegate. Because it
has one thing going for it that none of these other stories had, the
only thing that matters to the corrupt American media.

These
new-age denialists have elevated their computer models above the real
world of factual observations. Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for
Climate Prediction and Research set the standard for climate
pseudo-science. “The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the climate models.”

"The models are convenient fictions
that provide something very useful,”: Dr. David Frame, Climate
modeler, Oxford University. Indeed so, since the designer of the model
can decide which “very useful” output is desired. The baking of a cake
is a useful analogy.

The cook decides which ingredients to include in the recipe, the quantity of each, the final
shape and name of the cake. It could be named a lemon meringue, but if
the lemon flavoring is omitted, it certainly will not be a valid lemon
meringue.

Computer
climate modeling has formed the basis for the continuing plethora of
climate scare stories. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) calls them “scenarios,” but these computer fabrications are treated by the media, politicians, and general public more like predictions. The common ingredient
in the dozens of these General Circulation Models (GCM) used by the
U.N. and its supporters is the assumed primary role of manmade carbon
dioxide in driving Earth’s climate. They assert that the role of manmade
carbon dioxide is the singular answer to making their climate models
work, and thereby match some carefully chosen period of climate
history. Like the lemon in the cake, the prime role of fossil fuel
carbon dioxide in driving the results of their climate computers is the
one essential ingredient purposely baked into the computer/cake. “Lemon in, lemon out.”

The
full list of climate determinants (“cake ingredients”), their multiple
interactions, relative temporal significance, and relative quantitative
importance remain beyond current scientific understanding. Even the
basic records of global temperature, surface or atmospheric, are in
dispute because of faulty measurement technology, selective editing,
missing data sites, and urban heat contamination. Yet, manmade carbon
dioxide has been computer preprogrammed to a predetermined prime
importance as the main determinant of global temperature and climate
change.

What does the Earth say about the climate computer models? The real-world record documentsno warming for the past 17 years, even as atmospheric carbon dioxide
has increased about 9 per cent.

How bad were the computer models? A
recent paper
found that “global warming over the past 20 years is significantly
less than that calculated from 117 simulations of the climate by 37
models.” Oops.

The deniers claim deadly sea level rise based on their computers. The actualrecord shows that recent global sea level rise has decelerated 31 per cent. Oops.

Did the U.S. have an extreme weather year in 2013? Tornadoes? The number of tornadoes in the US in 2013 was the lowest total since 2000 and the lowest total in several decades. Oops.

U.S. wildfires? The number of wildfires
across the US in 2013 is the lowest it has been in the past ten years
and the acreage involved is at the second lowest level in that same time
period. (http://www.nifc.gov/)

U.S.
extreme heat in 2013? Extreme heat was down across the US for 2013.
The number of 100 degree days across the country during 2013 was down,
and may have been the lowest in about 100 years of records. (NOAA, USHCN
reporting stations; through August).

U.S. hurricanes? The U.S. is in the longest period since the Civil War Era without a major hurricane strike in the US (i.e., category 3, 4 or 5). The last major hurricane to strike the US was Hurricane Wilma in 2005.

So who are the climate deniers? The U.N.’s IPCC would be the presumptive leader, as it was founded to find the imprint of “human induced”
climate change. Other drivers of climate were largely dismissed
unless they could be shown to support the pre-determined conclusion that
there was a significant human fingerprint. This body is a political
entity, not a scientific research organization. It is notable that even
as earlier IPCC predictions of the impact of increasing atmospheric
carbon dioxide have proved false, and their magnitudes lessened in
subsequent IPCC reports, the organization remains unrepentant in its claims of certainty.

Notable scientific organizations such as the World Meteorological Organization (present at the founding of the IPCC), the American Meteorological Society, and the American Physical Society
have, at the leadership level, supported the premise of harmful climate
change, primarily caused by manmade carbon dioxide. Their published
papers are mostly skeptical of climate drivers not based on manmade
carbon dioxide. Most recently, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) has declared itself firmly in the
skeptics’ camp by issuing its report to “Recognize Climate Change Risks.” The failure of climate modeling predictions is not acknowledged…the relevance is denied.

There are many individuals including Al Gore, science advisor John Holdren, and John Podestawho are skeptics of scientific reports which point out the disconnect
between the manmade climate change mantra, and the actual physical
record."...

[Ed. note: Al Gore and Podesta aren't the problem. This was never going to be stopped by Democrats. That leaves only one option--the so-called GOP leadership, Boehner and McConnell. These two men have had access to microphones every day for decades and have done nothing to stop the growth of imaginary CO2 terror into a$1 billion a day racket. GOP 'leadership' has in fact doubled down in the past year in their refusal to stop this fraud. When is AT going to stop blaming Democrats and address Boehner and McConnell as the single problem? Either one could end this in five minutes but they won't. If AT were concerned it could long since have made this a daily focus.].

(continuing): "Most
notable is the lack of a definitive scientific reportthat can identify
and quantify the impact of human carbon dioxide on global climate, and
distinguish it from the natural background of climate change over time. The presumptive human influence signal is lost as background noise in
the over-riding signal of normal climate variability.

The deniers of computer-generated climate failures are denying the real world."

"Republican leaders have a clear strategy for combating President Barack Obama’s climate agenda: Don’t talk about the science."...

[Ed. note: When Politico says "the science" it means something imaginary. There is actual science proving CO2 doesn't cause temperature increase but if Politico acknowledged it the multi-trillion dollar climate industry would go bankrupt along with at least one European monarchy].

(continuing): "Just as top Republicans have called for their party to rebrand itself by
avoiding rhetoric that alienates minorities, young voters and women, key
GOP lawmakers are trying to stay out of the long-running debate about
whether global warming is real..."

Interestingly, McConnell didn’t deny that global warming existed. His
argument was that fighting climate change isn’t worth the economic
costs. That puts him in line with the majority of non-tea party
Republicans on the issue -- 61 percent of whom, according to a recent Pew poll, agree that global warming is occurring."...